Kuwait city: The State of Qatar won three awards at the GCC eGovernment Award 2025, held in the State of Kuwait on Wednesday, in recognition of its distinguished government initiatives in digital transformation and smart service development. These awards reflect the country’s continuous progress in implementing pioneering digital projects.
According to Qatar News Agency, the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) was recognized with the Outstanding Project Award in the Best Government Competencies Building Initiative Award category for its initiative Qatar Digital Academy. The award recognizes the Ministry’s efforts in raising awareness of emerging technologies and empowering all segments of society to actively participate in Qatar’s national digital transformation initiatives.
This achievement marks a milestone in the MCIT’s ongoing efforts to implement projects and programs that promote digital culture and advance digital inclusion across Qatar, in alignment with the objectives of the Digital Agenda 2030, which aims to build an integrated digital society where individuals and institutions participate equally.
The Ministry of Social Development and Family received the Outstanding Project Award in the Best Digital Inclusion Initiative Award category for its project Sokoon application to digitize Sign Language. Meanwhile, the National Planning Council earned the first place in the Open Data Initiative category for its project Qatar Open Data Platform.
This achievement reaffirms Qatar’s leading position in digital government, driven by continuous investment in digital infrastructure, national talent, and regional collaboration in innovation and the digital economy. HE Minister of Information and Communications Technology Mohammed bin Ali Al Mannai emphasized that Qatar’s winning of three awards at the Digital Government Award 2025 reflects the success of the national strategy for digital transformation and underscores the country’s pioneering role in advancing the GCC digital integration process.